The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1899, Page 23

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1899. Call .DECEMBER 31, 1809 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor hadress All Communications to W. §. LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE. . .Market and Third, S, F. Telephone Main 1868, to T 221 Stevenson St. DAILY CAY DAILY CAL DAILY CALL—By Sinzle Month MADAY CALL One Year. WEEKLY CALL One Year. . All postmasters are authorized to subscriptions. :ple copies will he forwarded when re 00 1.50 65c sa OALLAND OFFICE. cesssese. 908 Broadway C. GEOR KROGNESS, Manager Forelgn Advertising, Marquette Build- fng, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C CARLTON......c.vvvvvsase.Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR.. 29 Tribuue Dullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman Honse: P. 0. News Co.; Great North- ern Hotel: Fremont House; Aunditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE..Wellinzton Hotel J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. S—027 Montgomery street. cor- 1 9:30 o'clock. 300 Haves B0 o'clock. 639 McAllister BRANCH OFFICE! ek arkin . Mixsion o'¢lock. Market rner Sixteenth, open until 9 « Valencia street, open until 9 o 106G Eleventh wstreet, open until 9 o AW srner Twent econd nnd Kentucky open unt morrow night. « y Concert Thursday after a, Jan A himmie Fadder Cr Zoo and Theaters-Vaudeville every afterncon and even::_ C corner Mason and Elils streets—Specialties. Usr arsing Park—Coursing to-day w . vary 2, at 11 o'clock, FRENCH DESIGNS. RE is a existing pearance of m hod in some of ainst England. rance to hope that has been lost by e the shores of the Rk 3 the Charle- y of the empire he founded, reaty of partition. Tl HE the h ma always f iness ag conque ttleground grandsons of magne fought for m ste ces by A f her North ar of 1762 h. ted f possessions in the Her flag had w ased to ra nkle ort Duquesne to Montr lians who resented conqu who cd have ncreased to the French Canadians have furniche 1 several statesmen of nota- ble talents T as has been a French dream, equently ared. France has antage of any British weakness, i tc improve any appearance oi the decay of im- | power, to recover what the policy of Pitt took The French Canadians have never been Their ences of race and religion have been strength- ened rather than weakened by time, and it is possible y would ea quict and tractable subjects of Great Britain. ly fire up in revolutionary form iered to recover their allegiance. French has been peculiarly stimulated by the fact . the Boer general and strategi h blood. enc It is a roundabout way to even up iings and restore national pride, but his successes South Africa against four of the best British gen- rals who have been sent against him have seemed wipe out the memory of Waterloo. The recent report that a British naval patro] is to be put upon the North Atlantic coast to stop and search ships from this country that may carry goods contraband of war may mean a guard set for quite another purpose. We have seen in our little Spapis war the development of entirely unforeseen resuits. It led to costly and serious consequences that were not at all intended, and would have been repudiated in the beginning. So out of the South African war may come military complications that were nor thought of three months ago. If the Franco-Russian alliance still endures, and the small spark kindled in South light a great fire, an allied at- tack upon Canada and a plunge over the Indian bor- der would suit the joint purposes, ambitions-and plans of France and Russia. With the peppery and volatile French Canadians aroused in concert with such move the conquests of 1762 might well be undone. The English press is watchiul of these probable moves, and the more conservative papers continually reprehend the imprudent utterances of Mr. Cham- berlain. They say that intimations of an Anglo- American-German alliance must be offset by a “gen- tier diplomacy” than England is in the habit of prac- ticing It goes without saying that a change to such a plomatic tone would only serve to convince France 1 her ally that England is saintly because she is sick, and it might precipitate rather than retard mat- ters. rica sho a a It is said that the number of members of Parlia- ment of the Conservative party who have resigned to #o to South Africa is so large there are fears the Ministry will not have a majority left to support it when Parliament opens. That is one of the weak- nesses of parliamentary government. Under our sys- em the administration wouldn’t be weakened if every nember of the House of Hepresentatives went to the hilippines to chase Aguinaldo. e Since it appears we are to have an extra session it to be hoped the legislators will give us something tra in the way of legislation and not treat us to any thing in the ordinary-way. Another blow has been struck at a local industry. Supervisors have placed a yearly tax of $1000 on s giving prizefights. The pugs might start a pro- ve society. st, is of | HIGH SCHOOL WORK. HE most important address delivered to the ,T teachers of the State at Sacramento was by } President Wheeler on the relation of high schools to the university. Since the establishment of the connection between | the two, by which graduates of the accredited high | schools enter the university there has been a pro- | yressive tendency to shove university work back upon ! the schools. As the university can dictate the terms upon which the preparatory school shall be accred- ited it has practically dictated the curriculum, which is generally so arranged as to impair the work of practical education to be completed in the high school, if found to be suited and sufficient for stu- dents who do not intend to take a university course. This policy may have been well enough when the university needed students, but now it has too many President Wheeler pointed out that in the last ten years the attendance at the university lias increased 330 per cent, while the income of the istitution has increased only 70 per cent. It will be seen, therefore, that the service required for the wel- fare of the students is crippled by lack of money to provide it, and that the State is failing in its duty. At the same time that this incomplete service in the university is apparent, there is no “stopping place,” as President Wheeler calls it, in the high school course at which a student may rest, feeling that what he has acquired up to that point is a complete and symmetrical equipment for the work in life to which his tastes or his necessities incline him. He must stop short of a finished training, or he must go on through the university work that is crowded back upon the high school, in the certainty that when his diploma carries him into the university he will but add to the glut caused by the discrepancy between the income and the demands upon it. There is a resulting in- st ency which adds to the ranks of the “half La:- d deprives the State of the benefit of having its citizens whelly and completely educated and pre- 1 for their duties. As university work has been wded into the high schools the proper. work of the latter has been, of necessity, crowded back upon the grammar grades, and the legitimate work of these has been forced back upon the intermediate grades, until the whole common school system has been turned into a siphon with no other function than pre- paring university material and passing it along. Such a ensely artificial and does not square with pedagogic science. It is indeed refreshing to all common school teach- ers, to students, parents and taxpayers, to hear the president of the university declare that, “As the high school is a course in the development of personality, a culture course, its mission should not be to get stu- dents into the university. Colleges should accept students who have taken a high school course, and should arrange matters accordingly, but it is not un- dignified in colleges to teach the beginnings of studies. Greek, German, French and other studies might well be taught in their beginnings in colleges, thus enabling the higher institutions of lcarning to meet the high schools half way, and weed out from their curriculum many studies unnecessary to the stu- dent who does not intend taking a college course.” This is the most important declaration of policy and reform that has ever been made by a State universify president in the United States. While the general public, with attention diverted to the many issues of 1 and accustomed to accept whatever school policy v be arranged for it, may not at once appreciate the full weight and high importance of it, all profes- sional educators, whether in the public'schools or the college faculties, will hail it as the first sign of a releas n great burdens. While it means much to teachers, it means still more to the generation of vouth that is in the schools. When its recommenda- tions are adopted, as they must be, the common school course will again become what it was intended to be, a culture course in the fundamentals of all edu- cation which can be common to all. The hegtic con- ditions which have been upon the schools will pass away, and a better health will flush through the whole system. for its facilities. iners n system is Senator Hoar's resolutions are giving the imperial- than they can stand in the holiday season, and with one accord they are trying to find relief by declaring they are in favor of them but are opposed to their enforcement. ists more worry | THE RECIPROCITY TREATY. HEN the protests of Californians against the W proposed reciprocity treaty with France were first urged at Washington they were answered by Commissioner Kasson with the statement that the arrangement was largely to the advantage of the American people. According to his showing we ob- tain immense concessions from France and give com- paratively little in return. . As Kasson negotiated the treaty and is thoroughly familiar with it, his statement was accepted. without question, and the only objection urged was that the gain had been made mainly at the expense of Cali- fornia. It appeared that the Commissioner had driven a very profitable trade for the country at large and that his sole error lay in not taking care to pro- tect our interests as well as those of the East. A very different view of the treaty, however, has been presented to the French people by the French diplomats. They have been as eager as Mr. Kasson to make a record at home, and accordingly they have claimed that the treaty is largely to the advantage of France. In submitting it to the Chamber of Deputies the French Government accompanied the treaty with a statement in which it was said that only 4 per cent of American products are benefited by the reciprocal arrangements, representifig a gain of $200,000 an- | nualiy, while over 53 per cent of the French products | are benefited, these representing a gain of more than | $1,000,000 annually. | Of course we can readily understand that such a statement is merely a part of French politics. The ad- | ministration, having arranged the treaty, is now try- |ing to convince the Deputies that it has been clever enough to get a good deal for a very little. Never- theless the fact that the French can make such a good showing on their side casts some suspicion on the ac- | curacy of Kasson's figures. He may have put some- thing of a rosy glow on this treaty that makes it look | brixhter than it will be found when it goes into opera- | tion. | Eastern interests that are favored by the treaty are rot staggered by the French claims. They maintain | that even if the French be right it is a good thing to | have the treaty. The New York Commercial Adver- tiser, for example, says: “If the reciprocity treaty with France has been framed with wise regard for | American interests—and we are bound to believe this | of a treaty negotiated under the eye of the President | by men chosen by him—it is not against it, but in its | favor, that it admits a larger percentage of French im- ports to this country than of our exports into France, | These figures are. of course, made on present trade. | If the treaty affects imports from France. which we must take already because they are not our products, we shall gain in cheapness and lose nothing. If it affects our products now shut out of France we shall &ain a considerable increase, and the comparative statistics of a few years later will tell a different story.” If that view of the subject be correct—if to admit a larger percentage of French goods into our market than of our exports into France be commendable— then it will be very easy to negotiate reciprocity treaties. In the meantime it will be worth while for the Senate to inquire into the treaty and find out which side has the better of it. As for the worse side, it seems to be conceded everywhere that California gets it. S The organs of the jingo Anglo-Saxon alliance con- tinue to assert the American people sympathize with the British in the war with the Transvaal, but just the same one of the popular songs in New York just now has a chorus which runs thus: “Onward, Boers! Forward trek, Take the Britons by the nek, Rule Britannia! Flag and flog her, Bull and Buller! Lag and laager!” THE DEMAND FOR GOOD ROADS. OMETHING of cheer is to be found in the re- newed agitation for good roads now going on in the East. The new impulse comes from the increasing use of the automobile. Just as the bicy- clists have been strenuous advocates of improved highways so that wheeling might be more safely and more swiftly done, the rich who can afford automo- biles are in their turn demanding better roads, and thus a new and important factor is added to the side of progress. It is pointed out that while the French are by no means more enterprising than other people they are, by reason of their good roads, leading the world in the use of automobiles. According to a recent re- port on the subject there are at present something more than 7000 registered owners of automobiles in Europe, and of these about 5600 live in France. It is noted, moreover, that the use of the new vehicle is not confined to the splendid streets of Paris, for of the total number of the machines operated in that country less than 2000 are in the capital. In the United States there is a considerable class cf persons ready to adopt the automobile as soon as proper roads are provided. It was quite the rage to have automobile carriages at Newport last season, and it is said that forty which were there to be let s liv- ery carriages were far short of the demand. The in- crease in their use has been very marked in all of our large cities, and it is a safe assumption the use would be as general in this country as in France if the roads were as well fitted for their use. The activity of the automobile men has brought up the whole subject of good roads, and once more the campaign of education on the issue is being carried on with all the vigor that marked it a few years ago. Maurice E. Eldridge of the Department of Agricul- ture has been for some time past coHecting data of the cost of hauling farm produce over American roads, and according to a recent report the conclusion he draws from information given by farmers and team- sters is that the average cost in this country for haul- ing one ton a distance of one mile is 25 cents, while in France the average cost is said to be less than 7 cents. It is estimated that about $30,000,000 is expended annually in this country in patching up and repairing bad roads. Nearly the whole of that cost falls upon the farmers, and there is added to it the heavier ex- pense entailed in hauling produce over the roads. It would be worth while for farmers’ institutes and sim- ilar bodies to gather statistics of the cost of hauling and repairing roads in the different localities of the State. In that way our farmers would learn for them- selves what bad roads are costing them and perceive the folly of continuing the makeshift system, THE CATHODE RAY OUTDONE. HEN the marvels of the cathode or X ray W were made known to the world only a few years ago, it was believed we had reached a degree of photographic power that would not be sur- passed for generations to come, and that for the use of surgeons in locating foreign substances imbedded in flesh or bone it would be of permanent value. Yet according to reports of experiments made by Pro- fessor Barker in Philadelphia a short time ago, that wonderful ray is about to become a back number be- capse of the potency shown by a newly discovered element kaown as “radium.” The discovery of the new element is due to M. and Mme. Curie and is the result of investigations stimu- lated by the discovery of the X-ray. They were ex- perimenting in 1898 with uranium and its salts, which exert a fecble photographic power, when they ob- served phenomena indicating the existence of an un- known factor in the mass. They at once directed their investigations to the separation of that element from the substances with which it was associated and found not one but two new elements. To the first they gave the name “polonium” and to the second “radium.” The first is believed to have a radiant power five hundred-fold greater than that of uranium, but Professor Barker estimates the efficiency of ra- dium at one hundred thousand times that of uranium, For this reason and because of its comparative cheap- ness and simplicity thé second of the Curies’ discov- eries seems destined, it is said, to replace the costly and complicated X-ray apparatus in the realm of sur- gery. The most extraordinary characteristic of the new element is thus described in an account of Professor Barker's experiments by the New York Tribune: “The practicability of deriving one form of energy— heat, light, electricity or chemical action—from some other has long been recognized, but it is axiom- atic that none of them can be produced except by that method. It is believed that the most man can do is to transform. It is thought that he cannot, in any true sense, create. Roentgen obtained his X-rays only by a conversion of force previously existing in the form of electricity. But a radiance which will penetrate opaque bodies and act upon the chemicals on a photographic plate is secured from radium with- out the apparent use of any known species of energy. The phenomenon may yet be expldined. But at pres- ent it looks very much like what has long been re- garded an impossibility, the spontaneous generation of force.” The discovery of unknown elements of such mar- velous potencies at this late stage in the investigations of science is a striking proof of how little we know of the substances that lie around us or of the forces that act upon them. There is no telling what wide and high uses may yet be made of radium, but it is probable the discovery will be one of the most im- portant gifts which this century will bestow for the guidance of science in that which is to come. Tf the famous peace conference had let war ques- tions alone and directed its energies toward settling the dispute over the date of the beginning of the cen- tury; it might have accomplished something for peace that would have been valuable. - The New Year may not begin a new century, but it begins a new era for San Francisco all right. i ; I | rank *e0000000 as a scholar and educator. 000000000000 00000000000000000000000000600000000000800000, THE PERILS OF EXPANSION By Professor Arthur M. Wheeler of Yale. Professor Arthur M. Wheeler is at the head of the Department of History in Yale University. He holds high IR E R A E R XN ] 0000000000000000‘00000000000’00Q900000000000000000000.0000 AM an expansionist, one of what I sense sort.” I believe in the sort of expansion the Unitad It _has been our policy to occupy unin- States has had. habited territory. We have grown by annexation. The only exception to Mexico, and the onus for that affair the door of the slave barons, becaule tend their,power. - There is a wide difference between our traditional expansion and that involved in the Philippine question. analogy between the two. motive. the beginning of our rald on Spain. platform out of sight. circumstances have changed. thing. or We We have taken Cuba from Spain, and we say that we are going to make that Island independent. We are not going to do anything of the kind. Our records covering three-quarters of the century are fuil of instances on the case. Spain the island wiil fall into our hands. independent, but will be Incorporated into tory in some form or other. In acquiring Cuba we have a problem very similar to that we had in the negro question. the Spanish trouble In Cuba is exactly that of the whites In I do not doubt that to-day the whites in the South would slaughter every man, woman and child rather than sub- mit to negro domination. In taking the place of Spain in Cuba we fill the position formerly heid In the South by the slave bar- the South. ons. I anticipate a riot of materialism, of mammonism and cap- itallsm and specuiation in Cuba and Porto Rico. Cuba and Porto Rico we must govern them despotically. Thet is the only way they can be governed by us. to Cuba as the sugar planters went to Hawall, and, represeat. ing large corporaticns and combinations of capital, will take Cuba under thelr political control. We have no right to the Philippifies. them to us. course, something depends onthe We assignaed our motive to be “humanitarianism” at We justify ourselves by saying that That argument will justify any- The war did not give The protocol did not give them to us. “We are to teach the Filipinos self-government” {s the latest view. Self- call the *“‘common- by accretion, not this was the raid on is commonly laild at they wished to ex- manner. self-government, 1 can see no have now left that government cannot be taught. the world it has been the result of a long process of growth, and no nations, other than ever ever been able to get it in even that slow and painful Wherever it has appeared in those of Germanic origin, have England has been in Egypt since 1581, but Sir Edward Dicey says that no progress has been made in teaching the Egyptians We have really only a single motive for expansion—greed of gain and trade, We have the most magnificent domain the Lord ever allowed zny nation to have, and we should be con- tent to remain on it. The worst feature of the situation Is that we have turned our entire attention to mwoney-getting. were so foolish as to believe that when our territories were I am one of those who filled we would turn our attention to higher directions. Befora arisen. If Cuba has left Cuba will never be United States terri- the civil war we had our slave barons. tristocracy. Since the civil war the aristocracy of wealth nas This Is increasing. ators worth their millions. trol of the money power in politics. Another phase of the Philippine question We overthrew that Observe the United States Sen. All this tends to the absolute con- is this: Why should we go to the Philippines for trade when nine-tenths of before us which 1s 'he gist of not. The best thing the trade of the South American nations is with England? is said that the European nations are going to break up China 1 do not believe it. Thina has existed for 4000 years, and she will be right here in 4000 years more, whether England is or n for China we can do is to stir her up. That will awaken her to competition with the Western nations, and she will drive theiwr goods out with her cheap labor. . One of the weightiest arguments for our keeping out of the If we take Our men will go of it Oriental countries is evident from the recent Parliamentary re- port, which states that fully 5 per cent of the English troops have to be sent home Infected with syphilitic diseases. Do we wish to send our young men to the Philippines and run the risk of a similar experience? It is hard to find out just how the public stands on the question of retaining the Philippines because of the attitude of the brigand press. But there is everything against possession of the Philippines, and there is nothing in favor retaining CALIFORNIA HAS HARD QUESTION T0ASK KASSON It Will Be Put to Him Very Soon. NEW POINT HAS DEVELOPED e WHY DID THIS STATE GET NO RECIPROCITY? e Official coples of the reciprocity treaties negotiated by Kasson and representatives of France and Great Britain have been received in this city and they have been passed around among the exporters of California produce. The result has been to make the business men in many con- cerns wonder more than ever what the United States Commissioner could have been thinking about when he discrimi- nated against California. The fact is de- veloped that this State, if it has any share In reciprocity, has so small a one that it Is not visible. On the other hand, it is developed by the official text that the - grossest discrimination has been | practiced against those products which | California has been shipping abroad and working to make a market for during a | period of years. Some of the exporters of California dried and canned frults are | very angry now that they have seen the treaties, and they will prepare a com- munication that will be addressed to the California delegation at Washington. | “‘Here,” sajd a representative of a large | house yesterday, while he held a copy of the French-American reciprocity treaty in his hands, “is proof of what we have suspected. The list of articles upon which France will reduce her duties if the treaty is adopted is as follows: Horses, butter, lucerne and clover seed; fodder, castiron, skins and hides prepared, boots and shoes and parts of the same, belts and cords and other leather manufactured for ma- chinery, dynamos, machine tools, dynamo | conductors and parts, arc lamps known as regulars, sugar, chicory roots, green or dried; eggs, cheese, honey, porcelain, cardboard rough In sheets. “Now just cast your eyes over that list and see if there is/any mention there of prunes or dried fruits. Look at the list of articles that Uncle Sam will let in at low duties and you will see the follow- ing articles in which California is espe- clally concerned: Nuts, prunes, olive oil, plants and seeds. “California is a large exporter of prunes to France and Germany. The to- tal exports of prunes from California tnis year will amount to about 25,000,000 ounds, which are worth to the purchaser D cents per pound on the average. These are worth therefore at least §1.250,000. Not all of them went to France, but a large share did.. We sell more prunes to France than ‘France sells to the United States.. If there was to be a reduction in the duties on the ®rench prunes there ought lso to have been made a reducti fn the duties put by France upon California prunes. 1f the United States Government is willing to facill- tate the breaking in of the French to the American market for prunes it ought not to overlook the fact that we are aiso trying to find a better market in France. I do not care to have my name printed, for this is not an individual fight that we are engaged in, but the whole State is concerned. A petition will be pre- pared to go to Washington. askine irat the discrimination against California may be consedered. There IS a German treay reported to be In formation, and also a Russian treaty. They will also probably be harmful to us. g IS NINE1Y-NINE ONE HUNDRED? The Call does not hold itself responsible for the opinions published in this column, but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest. Editor The Call! Your leading editorial of last Sunday, a bit of an editorial squib- let on Wednesday and your editorial page cartoons of this morning indicate that some minds yet consider our heading an open question. The following may help such: . The question sounds absurd, does it not? It admits but the single answer, “Of course ninety-nine is not one hundred—it cannot be—no authority can make it so. Yet the question “'1s the new year, nine- teen hundred, the last of the nineteenth century or the first of the twentieth?” is exactly the same question in another form. Any. mind seeking proof, and willing to find it, has ohly to question itself thus: First—In common, everyday counting does the one hundredth unit belong to the first hundred or to_the second? Does It not finish the first? Could we have the hundred without it? Second—If our units are years does it in any way alter the fact? 'l!hlrd—'l'hen is it not plain that the year ninety-nine could not have ended the first century, but that only the last minute of the year one hundred could have fully completed that century? And do we not see with equal clearness that it needed the last second of the year one thousand to finish the tenth century— the very last instant of eighteen hundred to finish the eighteenth century, and that it will take the very last second of De- cember 31, 1906, to completely end the nineteenth century? Fourth—Can an honest debtor fully dis- charge a hundred-dollar debt with ninety- nine dollars, or even with ninety-nine dol- lars and ninety-nine cents? Or can this old world of ours fully discharge its debt of nineteen hundred years to old Father Time with eighteen hundred and ninety- nine years, or even with eighteen hun- dred and ninety-nine years and three hun- dred and sixty-four days? Those who an. swer these questions affirmatively we nbnulld hardly wish as preferred debtors, ure s g raé- In mathematics admit no argu- ments. Within its domain we may posi- tivelv assert and Incontrovertibly main- . the nineteenth century, the % tain that a fact is exactly so and cannot possibly be otherwise. Those who will kindly take pains to con- sider the above, with other familiar fllus- trations_omitted for lack of space, c. hardly fall to see that no other answer is possible than that this current year does not and cannot end this current cen- tury. And as a necessary consequence they must also see that the twenticth century will not, as it mathematically cannot, begin till ‘the very first second of the vear 1901. Thus the present century has yet one more full year to run. May yourselves and all your myriad readers find the com- ing new year, 1900, the true last year of very hap- est and best of all your and thelr lives, athematically yours, KNOWLTON. San Francisco, Deec. —_———— [MOST BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY PAPER Bridgeport Chronicle Union. December 23, 189, The Call issued a fifty-two page Christ- mas edition last Sunday, fully illustrated, its illustrations being of great artistic merit. L Sisson Mirror. December 21, 1899, The Christmas number of The Call came last Monday. It is a large and beautiful copy, containing many fine articles and excellent plctures. 5 . San Andreas Citizen. December 23, 1899, The San Francisco Call's Christmas art number was the best designed, the most artistic and better printed than anything ever attempted on this coast. It was a most creditable Ele(’e. of .Work, indeed. Angels Camp Record. December 23, 18%. Last Sunday’s Call was one of the most artistic holiday papers ever issued on the coast. It was full of news from the first page to the last one. The colored supple- ment was lnder«l a r:enu.l)'. Los Angeles Herald. The Christmas edition of the Sunday Call marked the apogee of artistic and literary- excellence in the way of Sunday issues of a dally paper. The illustrations are In many cases perfect examples of fine color printing and in all peints the edition is most creditable. J. Moore, the editor of the Sundn{ Ci was form- erly on the Herald staff in this city. Since his arrival on this coasi from New York a few years ago he has made remarkable progress in his profession. He is making a Sunday paper different from the ac- cepted class of such journals in producing a parer that is pleasing to the eye and Is devold of the penny dreadful features that many editors think are clamored for by the people, but which are objectionable to the larger class of readers. —_———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, FAITH AND BREATH-J. H. 8., Val- lejo, Cal. Faith and breath will not rhyme, and it is sald by writers of po- etry that these words cannot be used as finals in allowable rhymes. You had bet- ter consult some rhyming dictionary. ARMY HEADQUARTERS-S. City. The quartermaster’$ tlepartment of the United States Army, Department of Cali- fornia, is not in the Phelan building, but is located on New Montgomery street, be- tween Market and Mission. ~The store- house of that department is on Jessie street, near New Montgomery. TRANSPORT—A. 8., City. The largest number of men who arrived from Manila in San Francisco came on the transport Sherman, which arrived here August 23, 1599. She had on board twelve companies of the First California Regiment of Vol- unteers and two batteries of the Califor- nla Volunteer Heavy Artillery, together with fleld, staff and line officers. BEER VINEGAR-J. M., City. It Is sald that stale beer can be converted iInto vinegar by the addition of acetic acid and straining the liquid. COMPULSORY EDUCATION—Reader, City. There have been passed in twenty- nine States and two Territories compul- sory 'school laws, defining the ages to which the law shall apply, the annual school attendance and the penalty im- posed on parents and guardians for a vio- lation of the law. The States are: Cali- fornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Ili- inois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Ham- shire, New Yor! North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon. Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, h, Vermont, Washing- ton, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming; the Territories are: New Mexico and the District of Columblia. CIVILIANS AND MEAT—A Reader, City. “Is it a fact that the civilians in England eat as much meat in one week as the civilians of Ireland eat in six weeks?" is a very broad question. Tha correspon- dent does not seggregate the classes of civillans: but If he refers to the upper class it s probable that in both countries the consumption of meat is about equal. | In the middle classes it is probable that those of England partake of more flesh food than do those of Ireland, while | among the poorer classes there fs no | difference to speak of. the correspon- dent wishes to draw a distinction between the upper class of England and the poorer class of Ireland, it probable t! individual will consume more than times the amount of animal food that th other does. 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